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Info for….</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“<i>JITNEY</i>”
by August Wilson</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood
is pleased to announce Open Call auditions for August Wilson's "<i>Jitney</i>"
directed by Jimmie Woody.</span></p>
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only, and will take place at Beck Center. Interested</span></p>
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appointments by calling the Beck Center Box Office</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Open Call auditions will occur <b>Tuesday,
January 16th and Wednesday, January 17th</b> with </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">slots beginning at 6PM each of those
days. Callbacks will occur the weekend of January </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">17th/18th TBD.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Director Jimmie Woodie requests one
brief (90 seconds or less) contemporary monologue. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">If auditioner does not have a
prepared piece readily available, a monologue or cutting from </span>the<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> play will be provided at the
time of the audition.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"<i>Jitney</i>" opens on
April 5th and closes May 5th. Performances are Fri/Sat evenings and Sunday </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">afternoons only. Rehearsals will
begin circa late February.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It is anticipated that 2 AEA
contracts (Special Appearance) will be offered. All other non Equity </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">performers 18 and over receive a
stipend for their participation. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Show/Roles: </span></u></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Regular taxi cabs will not travel to the
Pittsburgh Hill District of the 1970s, and so the African-American residents
turn to jitneys—unofficial, unlicensed taxi cabs—that operate in the community.
This play portrays the lives of the jitney drivers at the station owned by Jim
Becker.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Cast</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Jim Becker, the
well-respected manager of the jitney station. In his 60s.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Doub, a driver,
cautious and slow going, a Korean War veteranIn his 50’s</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Fielding, a driver, an
alcoholic, formerly a tailor who clothed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Eckstine" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Billy Eckstine</span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Count Basie</span></a>. In his 50's/60's</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Turnbo, a driver,
notorious for being a gossip. In his late 30's/40's</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Youngblood (Darnell
Williams), a driver. Recently returned from Vietnam, working several jobs to
provide for his family. In his late 20s.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Rena, Youngblood's
girlfriend and the mother of his young son, Jesse. In her late 20’s</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Shealy, a
flamboyant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookie" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">bookie</span></a> who uses the jitney station as the
basis of his operations. In his 30/40's</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Philmore, a local
hotel doorman and a frequent jitney passenger. In his 40's</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">Booster (Clarence
Becker), Becker's son, who has just completed a 20-year prison sentence for
murder. In his late 30s</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">. {More}</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 1pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Extended SYNOPSIS</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41)">Jitney</span></i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41)"> is the eighth play in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle. It
takes place in The Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1977, in a gypsy cab station,
during Pittsburgh’s period of so-called “urban renewal.” As the city tries to
shut down businesses, including the cab station, to make way for new buildings,
we meet five gypsy cab drivers struggling to survive. Wilson’s ensemble piece
puts human faces to the process of gentrification seizing the United States,
telling of the specific human struggles of Becker, Youngblood, Turnbo, Fielding
and Doub as they cling to a nostalgic past, while reaching for an uncertain
future. Becker, the owner of the cab station, descends into an emotional spiral
when his son, Booster, comes out of jail, where he served time after murdering
his ex-girlfriend who falsely accused him of raping her. Youngblood has saved
up enough money to buy a house for himself, his girlfriend, and their
two-year-old son, Jesse, but even this grand gesture fails to redeem him in the
eyes of his girlfriend, Rena, who refuses to forgive him for his unfaithful
past. Turnbo is an older man who is distressed with the manners of the young
people today, especially those of fellow cab driver, Youngblood, and is
obsessed with comparing their actions to those he remembers from his happier
past. Recovering alcoholic Fielding, who used to be a tailor, is waging an
ongoing battle against his alcoholism, even as his continued drunkenness
threatens his job. Doub is a Korean War Veteran, and a longtime jitney driver,
who equates his time at war where ‘they never paid him no mind’ to the
experiences he and his black colleagues have with white men today. Over the
course of the play, all five of these men and the characters that come in and
out of their lives pose questions about how we can heal past wounds and leap
into a less-than-certain future.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41)">About The Director:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:minion-pro,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Jimmie Woody (DIRECTOR)</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:minion-pro,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> Some
of his most recent directorial credits include: ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by
Harper Lee, ‘Clybourne Park’ by Bruce Norris and ‘Raisin in the Sun’ by
Lorrainne Hansberry (Weathervane Playhouse), ‘The America Play’ by Suzan-Lori
Parks (University of Akron), ‘The Split Show’, ‘How Blood Go’, and ’The Bomb’
by Lisa Langford (Convergence Continuum & Cleveland Public Theater), ‘Glass
Menagerie’ by Tennessee Williams, ‘For Colored Girls…’ by Ntosake Shange,
‘Jitney’, ’Two Trains Running’ & ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ by August
Wilson (Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C Metro)), ‘365 days/365 Plays’ by
Suzan-Lori Parks (Cleveland Public Theater), ‘MLK Day’ by Jimmie Woody, ‘The
Colored Museum’, by George C. Wolfe & ‘When the Chickens Came Home to
Roost’ by Laurence Holder (Karamu House), ‘Seedfolks’ by Paul Fleischman (Tri-C
JazzFest Cleveland, Cleveland Public Library and the Cleveland Botanical
Garden), ‘Underground Griots’ by Natalie Parker & Keith Josef Adkins
(Cleveland Public Theatre, The National Black Theater Festival and Here Café
NYC), ’Wilberforce’ & ’Hollis Mugley’s Only Wish’ by Keith Josef Adkins and
(Cleveland Public Theatre, The National Black Theater Festival & New York
Hip Hop Festival), ‘The Baachae’ written by Wole Soyinka (Cleveland Public Theatre
and Columbia University), ‘Song’ by Daniel Gray Kontar and ’InCogNegro’ by Lisa
Langford (Cleveland Public Theatre). Jimmie received his M.F.A. in acting from
Columbia University. He is a 2012 Creative Workforce Fellow and is currently a
Resident Teaching Artist of Theater and Digital Media at Center for
Art-Inspired Learning and he’s an acting professor at Cuyahoga Community
College.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:minion-pro,serif"></span></p>
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